Keeping Watch March 8, 2021 ISSUE

Rethinking preferences

I started wondering just exactly when I’d become so particular about everything!

Chris Jones

“I’ll have a pot of Chamomile tea with three lemon wedges—not slices—and some of that green sweetener.”

As I overheard a woman at the next table give the waiter this detailed request, it reminded me of some of my own preferences, which I quickly realized were not inconsiderable in number. I noted, for instance, that I preferred dark chocolate to milk chocolate, cashmere to wool, large dogs to small, tennis to basketball—my mental list kept growing and growing. Next, I started wondering just exactly when I’d become so particular about everything!

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